ASSIGNMENTS

Instructions: Write your answers in a one whole yellow paper per assignment.

Assignment 1
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Define database? Differentiate database from Database Management System (DBMS).

What are the advantages of a Database Management System?
What are the cost and risk of using a database?
What are the components of a database environment?

Assignment 2
1. What are the processes involved when developing a database?
2. Explain the importance of database normalization?

Assignment 3
1. Define the following terms used in database:
a. Entity
b. Attributes
c. Relationships
d. Supertype relationships
e. Subtype relationships
f. Data type
g. Forms
h. Tables
i. Queries
j. Reports
k. Cardinality Constraints
l. ER Model

Assignment 4
1. What is MS Access 2013? What are the different uses of a MS Access Software?
2. What are the different parts of the MS Access 2013 Environment? Explain use of each
part.
3. What are the ways in to start and exit the Access program?

Assignment 5
1. How do you create a database in MS Access 2013?
2. Give the steps for the following:
a. Open an existing database
b. Save a database
c. Close a database

Assignment 6

1. Give the steps for the following:

TABLE
a. Create a table
b. Enter data in a table
c. Edit data on a table
d. Format a data
FORMS
a. Create a form
b. Enter data in a form